Senators demand crackdown on wildfire "prediction market" bets
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Re: Senators demand crackdown on wildfire "prediction market" bets
#2Is there not a prediction market for senator crackdowns too?
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#3This is insane. Predictive markets should already be illegal in the first place but to allow things like this is just insane
Re: Senators demand crackdown on wildfire "prediction market" bets
#4This is insane. Predictive markets should already be illegal in the first place but to allow things like this is just insane
Prediction markets allow us to quantify risk. (Un)expectedly we learned that the existence of a prediction market for an event increases its risk as long as someone capable of triggering the event stands to gain financially from its outcome.
Re: Senators demand crackdown on wildfire "prediction market" bets
#5Is there any niche yet capitalism has not exploited to its fullest? Why do we think it wouldn't here?
Re: Senators demand crackdown on wildfire "prediction market" bets
#6This is insane. Predictive markets should already be illegal in the first place but to allow things like this is just insane
Prediction markets allow us to quantify risk. (Un)expectedly we learned that the existence of a prediction market for an event increases its risk as long as someone capable of triggering the event stands to gain financially from its outcome.
> Prediction markets allow us to quantify risk.
Might as well derivate it from existing casino's roulette games, it's not like anyone betting on these are subject experts.
It's pure greed and fomo, sprinkled with a bit of cheating and corruption.
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#7Earlier quoted context omitted.
Prediction markets allow us to quantify risk. (Un)expectedly we learned that the existence of a prediction market for an event increases its risk as long as someone capable of triggering the event stands to gain financially from its outcome.
> Prediction markets allow us to quantify risk. Might as well derivate it from existing casino's roulette games, it's not like anyone betting on these are subject experts. It's pure greed and fomo, sprinkled with a bit of cheating and corruption.
Theoretically, being a SME means having an edge with which one can extract money. Agree or disagree? Why?
Re: Senators demand crackdown on wildfire "prediction market" bets
#8This is insane. Predictive markets should already be illegal in the first place but to allow things like this is just insane
Prediction markets allow us to quantify risk. (Un)expectedly we learned that the existence of a prediction market for an event increases its risk as long as someone capable of triggering the event stands to gain financially from its outcome.
It is not unexpected but something people have been shouting about since the idea was first floated.
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#9These senators who don't want people to gamble on, profit from, and create/fuel horrific disasters all have Ds after their names while the person they're begging to do something to stop this, Michael Selig, has an R after his name and also worked as a corporate lawyer for cryptocurrency firms and prediction markets before he was appointed by Trump to regulate those same industries.
This "demand" letter will be ignored, or at most laughed at. The letter is just a PR piece, a reminder to the public of who wants to help them instead of profit off of them, but it's not going to solve the problem. I sure hope they plan on doing a lot more than signing a strongly worded letter.
Re: Senators demand crackdown on wildfire "prediction market" bets
#10Earlier quoted context omitted.
> Prediction markets allow us to quantify risk. Might as well derivate it from existing casino's roulette games, it's not like anyone betting on these are subject experts. It's pure greed and fomo, sprinkled with a bit of cheating and corruption.
Theoretically, being a SME means having an edge with which one can extract money. Agree or disagree? Why?
So what is the rational reason someone who isn't a subject matter expert (assuming that's what you mean by SME) to bet in prediction markets? The platforms appear to be marketed to the general public to be used casually as a way to make quick money.
Someone who is a "subject matter expert" (and given how specific many of these predictions are, being an expert usually means you are an insider with non-public information) can indeed make money as long as a bunch of idiots with worse information place bets thinking they know the outcome. This is considered to be a crime when done with other securities.